Engrampa

The MATE desktop's graphical archive manager for creating, browsing and extracting compressed files.

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About Engrampa

Engrampa is the file archiver for the MATE desktop environment. It gives you a simple window for opening archives, browsing their contents, extracting files and creating new compressed archives. It integrates with the Caja file manager so you can compress or extract from the right-click menu.

It is packaged by Linux distributions that ship MATE, and suits users who want a lightweight, traditional archive tool that matches the rest of that desktop.

Strengths

  • Lightweight and simple interface
  • Integrates with the Caja file manager
  • Packaged by distributions that ship MATE

Limitations

  • Linux only
  • Designed around the MATE desktop
  • Relies on external command-line tools for many formats

Details

Pricing
FreeFree and open source as part of the MATE desktop.
License
GPL-2.0-or-later
Developer
The MATE contributors
Platforms
Linux
How it runs
Downloadable app
Account
Not required
Works offline
Yes
Best suited for
MATE desktop users who want a simple graphical archiver
Categories
Compression
Last verified
Added
Provenance
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Software that can replace Engrampa for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.

  • File Roller

    The GNOME desktop's archive manager for creating, browsing and extracting compressed archives.

    File Roller is the GNOME desktop's GPL archive manager, from which MATE's archiver descends, integrated with GNOME rather than Caja.

  • Xarchiver

    A lightweight GTK archive manager for Linux and FreeBSD that works independently of the desktop environment.

    Xarchiver is a lightweight GTK archive manager that works independently of any desktop environment, suiting Xfce or LXDE, and also runs on FreeBSD.

  • Ark

    KDE's graphical archive manager for browsing, creating, extracting and modifying compressed archives.

    Ark is KDE's archive manager with content previews and frequent releases, also available on Windows, but it fits best in a KDE Plasma desktop.

  • Arqiver

    A simple Qt archive manager for Linux built on libarchive, gzip and 7z.

    Arqiver is a small Qt archive manager built on bsdtar and 7z, fitting LXQt and other lightweight Qt desktops rather than MATE.

  • PeaZip

    A cross-platform archive manager that reads over two hundred formats and has a real file manager built in.

    PeaZip reads over 200 formats on Linux, Windows and macOS with a built-in file manager, though its interface is busier than Engrampa's.

  • Deepin Archive Manager

    A lightweight Linux archive manager from the Deepin desktop for creating and extracting archives.

    Deepin Archive Manager is a simple Linux archiver with many translations that depends on Deepin's DTK libraries and suits the Deepin desktop.

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